Pompeo says era of 'blind' China engagement ending in Taiwan speech


Mike Pompeo described Chinese President Xi Jinping's decade in power as a turning point in relations between Washington and Beijing. - AFP

KAOHSIUNG, TAIWAN (AFP): Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo told an audience in Taiwan on Tuesday (Sept 27) that the era of "blind engagement" with China is ending, and that Beijing's increasingly aggressive behaviour has brought like-minded nations closer together.

One of former president Donald Trump's most hawkish advisers on China, Pompeo is the latest in a recent spate of Western politicians to visit Taiwan, often angering Beijing.

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